Tag: Lula da Silva

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Dilma in her first year is proving to be an Iron Lady loved by the middle class

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be celebrating on Sunday her first of four years in office with a record public opinion support of 72%, based on a sober and firm style in running what has become the world’s sixth largest economy.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Brazil’s President Rousseff ends her first year with a popularity of 73%

  

  Brazil’s first woman president Dilma Rousseff popularity climbed in December to reach 72%, almost the same level, 73%, when she took office January first 2011, according to a public opinion poll from Ibope released earlier this week.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Doctors impressed with Lula da Silva’s response to chemotherapy

  

  Doctors in charge of throat cancer treatment for former Brazilian President Lula da Silva called his response to chemotherapy “impressive” and said the tumour in his larynx had shrunk by 75% in size.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  New look for Lula da Silva as he undergoes chemotherapy treatment

  

  Brazil's ex-president Lula da Silva got a new look Wednesday, as his wife Marisa Leticia shaved off his iconic beard and his thick head of hair ahead of chemotherapy therapy for throat cancer.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 01:44 UTC

  Lula undergoes cancer treatment; calls Brazilians to support President Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, one of the most popular figures in Brazil vowed in a video posted on YouTube to beat his recently diagnosed throat cancer.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Brazil receives 8bn dollars loan to lift another 16 million people from ‘misery’

  

  Brazil will receive 8 billion dollars in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said on Wednesday.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 19:10 UTC

  Brazil awaking to the possible prospect of political life without Lula da Silva

  

  Brazil's popular former President Lula da Silva started chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer Monday with his doctors voicing confidence in his chances of being cured within four months.

• Saturday, October 29th 2011 - 19:20 UTC

  Lula da Silva diagnosed with throat cancer and must undergo chemotherapy

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was diagnosed with throat cancer, casting doubt on his political future in Latin America's largest economy.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 03:08 UTC

  In eight years Brazilian officials skimmed 37.7bn dollars from government coffers

  

  Brazilian officials skimmed at least a staggering equivalent of 37.7bn dollars from government coffers in just eight years of corruption cases from 2003-2010, the Rio do Janeiro daily O Globo reported, based on numbers from the country’s Public Accounts ombudsman.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 02:00 UTC

  Truth committee in Brazil but with no review of past human rights’ crimes

  

  Brazilian Senate Constitution and Justice Committee approved this week the bill for the creation of a National Truth Commission to research unsolved serious crimes committed between 1946 and 1988, which includes the controversial military dictatorship period from 1964 to 1985.